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Graham Responds to Steyn, Stuttaford - The South Carolina senator defends his comments about...
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | April 4, 2011 | Robert Costa

Posted on 04/04/2011 2:24:28 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: IbJensen

I kinda like how freepers aren’t being as polite anymore. Time for the gloves to come off IMO.


101 posted on 04/04/2011 5:31:31 PM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks neverdem.
General Petraeus sent a statement out to all news organizations yesterday, urging our government to ban Koran burning. Free speech probably allows that, but I don't like that. I don't like burning the flag under the idea of free speech. That bothers me; I have been one of the chief sponsors of legislation against burning the flag. I don't like the idea that these people picket funerals of slain servicemen. If I had my way, that wouldn't be free speech. So there are a lot of things under the guise of free speech that I think are harmful and hateful.When General Petraeus wants us to say something because our troops are at risk, I'm glad to help.
Radical feminists and other leftist pussies should be out burning korans every single day -- but they worry about getting killed by permanently-offended angry Muzzies.

If LG were serious about getting a law passed making flag-burning illegal, he'd bundle it with the ban on koran burning and the Democrat Moonbat funeral protests.

The quickest way to get these Muzzie asshole rioters under control is to let the "President" of Afghanistan know that, unless he cracks down on 'em, we'll pull out, starting with the protection we give his sorry ass.


102 posted on 04/04/2011 5:43:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

You are 100% correct.


103 posted on 04/04/2011 5:49:56 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the pings on these Steyn NR corner posts today Gene Eric and neverdem.


104 posted on 04/04/2011 6:05:28 PM PDT by JLS (Democrats: People who won't even let you enjoy an unseasonably warm winter day.)
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To: neverdem; xzins
General Petraeus sent a statement out to all news organizations yesterday, urging our government to ban Koran burning.

Either fire Petraeus or get the Hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya and all the Muslim Hell holes on the planet.

Petraeus obviously has forgotten that we are there to protect the very right to burn a Koran or a Bible or a Book of Mormon or whatever other symbolic gesture we want to make in the exericise of our religion and free speech.

We are surrendering our Liberties in the name of political correctness.

IIRC Petraeus ordered the burning of a bunch of Bibles in Afghanistan last year and from that point on I have decided that our mission in Afghanistan is over and we need to get out.

With this statement by our commanding General advising the US Government on how to take away American Liberty, it is obvious that he has been out of this country for so long he is beginning to adopt the customs and practices of the tyrannies we went there to eliminate.

105 posted on 04/04/2011 6:27:24 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: rabscuttle385

The more I think about this the angrier I get. I don’t like thumbs stuck in my eye by RINOs — especially this one. Thank you for the reply.


106 posted on 04/04/2011 6:29:04 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: neverdem
He's trying to mix up several issues here and it shows he's an idiot.

Flag burning is and should be protected speech. We do that stuff 'round here (US) all the time.

However, nobody was ceremonially burning Korans in Afghanistan and subjecting themselves to Afghan law.

Those Korans were being burned right here in the USA and I will support anyone's right to do it. And burn flags, bibles and pedophiles at the stake.

107 posted on 04/04/2011 6:36:27 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Terry Mross

“First of all, what is his definition of “pushing back”?”

You make a good point; mebbe lindsey is tryin’ to endear hisself to some of those Afghan Pashtun tribesmen, you know, the ones who like sport around with prepubescent
boys they use for sex and status symbols. Ol’ lindsey would have the time of his life over there in a mud hut being the center of attention!! HAW

JC


108 posted on 04/04/2011 6:37:25 PM PDT by cracker45
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To: neverdem
I wish we could hold people accountable for their actions, but under free speech, you can’t.

Sen. Graham, this sounds like the beginning of a justification for the restricting of free speech.

109 posted on 04/04/2011 6:40:34 PM PDT by FourPeas (James 3:9-10)
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To: buck61

Which does beg the question if the military is quite what the Conservatives seem to think it is.


110 posted on 04/04/2011 6:41:36 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: SunkenCiv; P-Marlowe

Whoa guys!

“General Petraeus sent a statement out to all news organizations yesterday, urging our government to ban Koran burning.”

AFAIK no one has found such a statement fron Petreaus.

The only statement we’ve found is the one in reply 86.

Lindsay may lie when he thinks it’s good for him.


111 posted on 04/04/2011 6:43:39 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: mrsmith

“Holy Qur’an”, my arse! I don’t the Koran to be holy anymore than I considered the emperor of Japan to be a god!

This multiculturism crap is a complete loser and totally at odds with our entire American way of life! As Savage sez: Borders, language, culture! When we start to capitulating to the “feelings” of a bunch of barbarians, it’s all over!

JC


112 posted on 04/04/2011 6:52:24 PM PDT by cracker45
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To: FourPeas
Sen. Graham, this sounds like the beginning of a justification for the restricting of free speech.

If Senator Graham would offer restrictions on the burning of the Koran...would he offer restrictions on burning the Bible?

113 posted on 04/04/2011 6:57:13 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: mrsmith; SunkenCiv; P-Marlowe
“General Petraeus sent a statement out to all news organizations yesterday, urging our government to ban Koran burning.” AFAIK no one has found such a statement fron Petreaus. The only statement we’ve found is the one in reply 86. Lindsay may lie when he thinks it’s good for him.

I can't find any such statement from Petreaus either. The only ones claiming that Petraeus said that are Graham and posters on this thread who are quoting Graham.

114 posted on 04/04/2011 7:16:02 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: neverdem
Okay, Graham's new talking point is he doesn't want to put our troops at risk (I lost count of the number of times he said that). But in declaring that he'd like to jettison, or significantly alter, the 1st Amendment, he's doing exactly that.

He's encouraging and inspiring the heck out of them, just the opposite of what he says he wants to do. Muslims want to destroy our constitutional form of government and, most importantly, the Bill of Rights. And here's this Carolina jackass declaring his willingness to give muslims what they could normally only get by conquest. And it's the First Amendment, to boot, the first and perhaps the most important and symbolic right of all the rights in the Bill of Rights. Muslims will notice that and be inspired by it.

You are a disgrace, Lindsey Graham, and muslims will never stop fighting us as long as the likes of you are around to give them hope. Please stop putting our troops at risk.

115 posted on 04/04/2011 7:33:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: neverdem

Our elected official says that freedom of speech is a “good idea..!!!!!!. No, Linda. Freedom of Speech is a bedrock of our Constitution! You know....that which you have taken an oath to uphold? POS! Can Senators be impeached for failing to fulfill their oaths?


116 posted on 04/04/2011 7:54:43 PM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: mrsmith; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Petraeus koran site:freerepublic.com
Google

117 posted on 04/04/2011 8:16:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv

None of those are “urging our government to ban Koran burning”.
So Lindsay is lying.

I don’t approve of his participation in this domestic area but I would demand his removal if he went as far as Lindsay falsely claimed.


118 posted on 04/04/2011 8:33:40 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: neverdem
Mealy-mouthed pusillanimous pissant quisling!
119 posted on 04/04/2011 8:58:23 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: SunkenCiv; mrsmith

What is the point of your google link in post 117?

Is it that some posters are quoting Graham without bothering to check if what he said about Petraeus is true?


120 posted on 04/04/2011 9:46:59 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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